Re: Makefile.am and xxx_LDFLAGS seems not working

[Pauli Sundberg]

Hello and thanks for the reply.

Yes indeed, \t was the problem.  Replacing that with whitspaces did the 
trick. I was about to whine why not 'make a warning out from it' but it 
seems like manual has already mention about it.

> Further note that variable assignments should not be indented with 
> <TAB> characters, use spaces if necessary. On the other hand, rule 
> commands should be indented with a leading <TAB> character.

I guess i will in future just drop the indentations..

Cheers,
Pauli.


On 01/31/2011 06:59 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On Monday 31 January 2011, Pauli Sundberg wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am trying to add -all-static flag for binaries compiled with autotools.
> >
> > What i am doing wrong since to me it seems like _LDFLAGS is not working
> > when i have _LDFLAGS defined in Automake.am:
> >
> > > bin_PROGRAMS = linearize
> > >
> > > linearize_SOURCES = \
> > >          Linearize/linearize_main.c Linearize/linearizeParameters.c \
> > >          Linearize/linearizeParameters.h
> > >
> > > if COND_STATIC_BIN
> > >      linearize_LDFLAGS = -all-static
> Did you use a literal tab at the beginning of the line?  If yes, then
> automake won't consider this line as a variable assignement, but will
> be confused into thinking that it's a make recipe (and will it output
> unchanged).
>
> My advice: never use leading whitespace before a variable assignement
> or a target declaration.  The annoying downside is that you can't use
> nice indentation with conditionals, the upside is that you won't be
> bitten by mistakes like this.
>
> > > endif
> > If i look at the generated Makefile i can find:
> >
> >          linearize_LDFLAGS = -all-static
> >
> > but the link command:
> > linearize$(EXEEXT): $(linearize_OBJECTS) $(linearize_DEPENDENCIES)
> >           @rm -f linearize$(EXEEXT)
> >           $(LINK) $(linearize_OBJECTS) $(linearize_LDADD) $(LIBS)
> >
> > Where link is:
> > LINK = $(LIBTOOL) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) $(LIBTOOLFLAGS) \
> >           --mode=link $(CCLD) $(AM_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(AM_LDFLAGS) \
> >           $(LDFLAGS) -o $@
> >
> > seems to ignore these linearize_LDFLAGS.
> >
> > Full Automake.am can be found from:
> > http://susundberg.pastebin.com/LuhKbU1K
> >
> > Generated automake.in:
> > http://susundberg.pastebin.com/7HTrC737
> >
> > And generated Makefile:
> > http://susundberg.pastebin.com/rQHUXZc1
> Thanks for posting these links, they seem to confirm the diagnosis
> I've made above.
>
> > Any tips how to start figure out whats wrong? The project has lots of
> > Autoconf files and i would rather not post them all here.
> Removing that leading tab should be enough to solve your problem.
>
> > Thanks!
> > Pauli Sundberg
> HTH,
>    Stefano